Bio

Megan Besecker enters her second season at the helm after leading the Cougars to its first KJCCC title since 2011 and a final No. 19 national ranking.

Besecker built her initial campaign with a talented group of freshmen to compliment a limited number of returning starters. Picked 8th in the KJCCC’s pre-season coaches poll, Besecker led the squad to a two-match cushion for the league title finishing at 13-3 after winning twelve straight including seven in straight sets. The team's bid to add a Region/District title fell short in the semifinals to conclude the season at 25-6 overall.

Barton swept the All-KJCCC/Region VI post-season top accolades with Besecker being named the Coach of the Year. Phoebe Reyes led six of the squad’s honorees in being named both the Freshman of the Year and the Most Valuable Player.  Joining Reyes on the First Team were Kassidy Nixon and Anna Wierzbicki with Clara Lindstrom, the lone sophomore on the list, landing on the Second Team while Elena Stankovic and Mya Thompson garnered Honorable Mention distinction.

Before becoming Barton’s 16^th coach in now going into the program’s 45^th season, Besecker previously served as an assistant coach for the 2022 NJCAA Division I Volleyball National Champion Buccaneers of Florida Southwestern College under Thais Baziquetto-Allen, her former high school coach who then guided Seward County Community College for three seasons prior to FSW.

A Liberal, Kansas, native, Besecker played at Garden City Community College and Tougaloo College (MS), entering the coaching ranks as Head Coach at Liberal High School before moving up to the college ranks as an assistant at NCAA Division II Emporia State University.